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No. 227,534. Patented May 11, 1880.

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JOSEPH S. IVES, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

TICKET-REEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 227,534, dated May 11, 1880.

Application filed March 17, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOSEPH S. IVES, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Ticket-Reels, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a ticket-reel which contains a roll of tickets provided with perforations at regular intervals, and in which are arranged a knife and a feed-dog adapted to engage with the perforations in the ticket-strip, both the knife and the feed-dog being operated by means of a lever, so that the tickets are regularly fed forward by the action of the feeddog, and then cut off one after the other by the knife, the motion of the knife and of the feed-dog being so adjusted that while the knife cuts the feed-dog recedes, and as soon as the knife has been drawn back the feed-dog engages with a new perforation in the ticketstrip, so as to feed the same forward the exact distance required, ready for the subsequent action of the knife. In the interior of the case which contains the knife, the feed-dog, and the mechanism for imparting motion to the same is a shell, which receives the ticket-roll and serves as a guard to prevent said roll from interfering with the action of the knife and of the feed-dog.

This invention is illustrated in the accompanyin g drawings, in which- Figure l 'represents a section in the plane or 00, Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a section in the plane y y, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a section in the plane z 2, Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a plan of the case. Fig. 5 is a plan of a portion of the ticket-strip.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

In these drawings, the letter A designates a case, which is made of metal or any other two heads, one of which is connected to the body by a hinge-joint, a, and fastened by a suitable latch or tongue b, so that when the fastening device is released said head can be turned down in order to get access to the interior of the case. In the case A is secured a shell, B, which is open at one end and the diametcr of which is smaller than that of the case, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. This shell is intended to receive the ticket-roll C, (see Fig.

1,) and it is fastened in the case A in an cecentric position to leave room for the feeding and cutting mechanism, which will be presently more fully explained.

The ticket-roll is placed loosely into the shellB, there being no shaft or pin to support the same, and its end is drawn out through an opening, 0, in the side of the shell and through an opening, d, in the side of the case, and then beneath a bridge, f, Fig. 1. Close in front of this bridge is a slit, g, to allow the knife D to act upon the successive tickets. This knife is secured to a slide, E, and its width, Fig. 2, is equal to or greater than that of the ticket'strip G, a portion of which is shown in Fig. 5. In this ticket-strip are perforations h (see Fig. 5) at equal distances apart and on .the lines where the successive tickets can be cut from the strip. In the example shown in the drawings only one row of such perforations is shown; but, if desired, two or more rows of perforations may be used.

In the interior of the case A is situated a feed-dog, E, which is mounted on the end of a stud, i, and exposed to the action of a weak spring, j, which has a tendency to throw its point It outward through a slit, Z, in the case. The stud i is secured to a lever, F, which swings on a screw, m, secured in the center of the rigid head of the case A, Figs. 2 and 3, and extends out through a slit in the side of the case, so that it can be moved from the position shown in full lines in Fig. 3 to that shown in dotted lines. The inner end of said lever forms a double cam, 41 0, the spur n of which acts on a shoulder, 19, of the knife-slide E, which is retained and guided by screws q q, secured in the rigid head of the case A, while the spur o of the double cam acts on a shoulder, 1", of said slide.

When the lever F is moved from the position shown in full lines to that shown in dotted lines in Fig. 3 the point of the feed-dog slides back beneath the ticket-strip and the knife is thrown out through the slit g, so as to cut off that portion of the ticket-strip which projects beyond the bridge f. As the lever is moved back the spuro depresses the knife, while the feed-dog moves forward beneath the ticketstrip until it engages with one of the perforabefore the ticket-strip begins to be fed forward, and that the amount of motion imparted to the ticket-strip by the feed-dog depends entirely upon the distance between the successive perforations h, so that the knife takes action always at the required line, and since the knife-slide receives a positive motion in either direction, the tickets cut from the ticket-strip are all of uniform size.

A shield, G, extends over the springs e and bridge f, and to such a distance beyond said bridge that the position of the ticket-strip cannot be disturbed, except by the action of the lever F. If desired, this shield can be placed into the interior of the case A, said shield formin g then the support for the bridge f and springs e, and being provided with slits g e and opening d, the object of such change being to preserve a uniform surface of the case A.

I do not claim, broadly, as my invention to feed a ticket-strip by a dog engaging with holes or perforations in said strip, said operation being old and well known, being shown, for instance, in the English patent of Wheatstone,No.1,239 of 1858. In a ticket-reel, however, from which the tickets are to be fed out and then cut, itis requisite that the feed-motion shall be perfectly uniform, so that the tickets will be cut off at the proper places and lines, and I use in my apparatus a feeddog constructed to engage with holes in the ticketstrips, because I have found feed-rollers such as have been used for a long time back in ticket-reels impart to the ticket-strip a variable feed-motion greater at one time than at another, and sometimes the ticket-strip assumes an oblique position, so that the tickets are cut off in the wrong place.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, in a ticket-reel, of a case for receiving a roll of tickets, an opening in said case, through which the tickets are made to pass, the slide E, situated in the, interior of the case, the knife D, attached to the slide, and also situated in the interior of the case, the lever F. which turns on a pivot fastened in the interior of the case, the double cam n 0, formed on the inner end of said lever, shoulders p 1', formed on the slide E and acted on by the cams n o, and the feed-dog E, which is pivoted to the lever F and slides back over the inner surface of the ticket-strip when the knife is brought into action, while at the time the knife recedes said dog is caused to move forward and to engage with a perforation in the ticket-strip, all constructed to operate substantially as and for the purpose herein shown and described.

2. The combination, in a ticket-reel, of a case containing a knife and a feed-dog, a shell, B, situated eccentrically in the interior of the case A, and constructed to receive a loose roll of tickets, an opening in one side of the shell, and an opening in the case, through which the tickets are made to pass, and a lever for actuatin g the knife and the feed-dog, said feed-dog being adapted to act on the ticket-strip at a place intermediate between thehouter surface of the shell B and the inner surface of the case A, substantially as shown and described.

3. The combination, with the case A, shell B, lever-F, knife D, slide E, and feed-dog E, of retaining-springs 0, bridge f, and shield G, all constructed to operate substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOS. s. IVES. 1,. s.]

Witnesses:

R. B. VALENTINE, J r., T. PRocToR. 

